- Blowin' Away
Infobox Album
Name = Blowin' Away
Type =Album
Artist = Joan Baez
Released = June 1977
Recorded = 1977
Genre = Folk
Length = 40:24
Label = Columbia
Producer =David Kershenbaum ,Bernard Gelb
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mgex97q7krrt link]
*"Rolling Stone " [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/146754/joanbaez?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscographyMainReleases&pageregion=mainRegion link]
Last album = "Gulf Winds "
(1976)
This album = "Blowin' Away"
(1977)
Next album = "Best of Joan C. Baez "
(1977)"Blowin' Away" was a 1977 album by
Joan Baez , her first after switching fromA&M Records toCBS Records . The album veered more toward mainstream pop than any album Baez had recorded up to that point, though many critics at the time pointed out that she seemed not entirely comfortable with her "new sound". Among the songs covered were theRod Stewart hit "Sailing, and the standard "Cry Me a River", in addition to a number of Baez' own compositions. The sardonic "Time Rag" recounts an aborted attempt at an interview by a "Time" magazine reporter. Throughout the course of the song, she admits to studio executives wanting to spruce up her image to ensure that she'd once again sell well. "I really should tell you that deep in my heart/I don't give a damn where I stand on the charts", she wryly comments toward the song's closing.From
Time Rag :"Curious about his interestI babbled my way through the worldwide listIreland, Chile and the African statesPoetry, politics and how they relateMotherhood, music and Moog synthesizersPolitical prisoners and Commie sympathizersHetero, homo and bisexualityWhere they all stand in the nineteen-seventies"
Baez wrote
The Altar Boy and the Thief as a tribute to her gay fanbase.In her autobiography, "And a Voice to Sing With", Baez described "Blowin' Away" as "a good album with a terrible cover".
Track listing
All tracks composed by Joan Baez; except where indicated
#"Sailing" (
Gavin Sutherland )
#"Many a Mile to Freedom" (Steve Winwood )
#"Miracles"
#"Yellow Coat" (Steve Goodman )
#"Time Rag"
#"A Heartfelt Line or Two"
#"I'm Blowin' Away" (Eric Kaz )
#"Luba the Baroness"
#"The Altar Boy and the Thief"
#"Cry Me a River " (Arthur Hamilton)References
* Baez, Joan. 1987. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Century Hutchinson, London. ISBN 0-7126-1827-9
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